Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of Incidents Connected with the Treaty of Fond Du LacF. Lucas, jun'r., 1827 - 493 páginas |
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... felt more secure , under a shingled roof , with a promise on their part , that " if the gust cleared up " they would come on to - night - it was then about sundown- " or to - morrow morning in time for the boat . " How anxiously do I ...
... felt more secure , under a shingled roof , with a promise on their part , that " if the gust cleared up " they would come on to - night - it was then about sundown- " or to - morrow morning in time for the boat . " How anxiously do I ...
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... felt a momentary tremor myself , but being seated in the stern of the boat , I saw sooner than those who were below , the cause of the alarm . Part of the machinery had given way , and with a loud crash , which , in these boiler ...
... felt a momentary tremor myself , but being seated in the stern of the boat , I saw sooner than those who were below , the cause of the alarm . Part of the machinery had given way , and with a loud crash , which , in these boiler ...
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... felt , when I tell you I regretted parting with several who left us at West point , and with as much solicitude , as if the acquaintance of the day had been the intimacy of a year . I cannot refrain from naming to you Col. and Mrs. B ...
... felt , when I tell you I regretted parting with several who left us at West point , and with as much solicitude , as if the acquaintance of the day had been the intimacy of a year . I cannot refrain from naming to you Col. and Mrs. B ...
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... felt that I could bear " The ruffling wind - scarce conscious that it blew . " Every where - behind and before , and on both sides , rose the surprising grandeur ! The City on the right , swelling out upon the North river , and ...
... felt that I could bear " The ruffling wind - scarce conscious that it blew . " Every where - behind and before , and on both sides , rose the surprising grandeur ! The City on the right , swelling out upon the North river , and ...
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... felt more than I have language to convey to you . I thought of the period that of our revolution - of the toil expended in erecting this fort - of the dangers which menaced it - of the privations of those noble fellows who had their ...
... felt more than I have language to convey to you . I thought of the period that of our revolution - of the toil expended in erecting this fort - of the dangers which menaced it - of the privations of those noble fellows who had their ...
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Albany appearance arrived barges bark beach beautiful believe boat called canal canoe chief Chippeway clouds council DEAR Detroit distance doubtless Embarked encamped father feel feet felt fire fish five Fond du Lac Fort Gratiot four give Governor Grand island half past hand happy head heard heart hour hundred yards Indians Iron river island Lake Huron Lake Superior land Lewistown light live Lockport lodge look Michillimackinac miles Montreal river morning mountains mouth Nanibojou nearly never night o'clock once ornamented paddles passed Pontiac present rest returned river rock round Sault de St Schenectady Schoolcraft schooner seen shore side soon spirit steam boat sun-down sun-rise tent Thermometer thing thunder Thunder bay to-day told took treaty Utica voyageurs whilst white fish wind young
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Página 365 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 98 - tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXVI. LXIX. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Página 99 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 99 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 242 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 447 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand.
Página 374 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain...
Página 410 - To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God Whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, is now, And shall be evermore.
Página 374 - Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty ; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field. Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only in its own disgrace, Exults to see its thistly curse repealed. The various seasons woven into one, And that one season an eternal spring, The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full.
Página 374 - The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full. The lion, and the libbard, and the bear Graze with the fearless flocks; all bask at noon Together, or all gambol in the shade Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.